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(Courtesy of Eurasia Review) Dr. S. I. Keethaponcalan Will there be a Tamil boycott of Sri Lanka elections? Last week, in an unexpected move, Maithripala Sirisena, General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, was declared the common opposition candidate..

Mr. Venkaiah Naidu, BJP Union Minister for Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs has declared that Sri Lanka should give equal rights to Tamils. Does this imply that Tamils do not enjoy equal rights, or perhaps that is the perception? If..

Holocaust, Crusades, Portuguese and Spanish inquisitions, Salem witch trials, Genocide of the native peoples of the Americas and Carribean, Genocide of Middle Eastern peoples, Genocide of Africans and Australian Aborginals, the Portuguese Inquisition in Goa and Sri Lanka the list can..

By H. L. D. Mahindapala – H. L. D. Mahindapala Part II One of the oddities that casts a slur on the Tamil nationalist movement is the fact that it was not launched in Jaffna – the holy peninsula hailed as the..

Part I H. L. D. Mahindapala                             December 18, 1949, which happened to be aSunday, has been ignored by social scientists who should have evaluated it critically, at..

This is what happens when LTTE tiger cubs are adopted and given asylum in Canada. First they would start establishing ‘Eelam areas’, then they would begin to appoint ‘Eelam’ MPs fooling the Canadian voters and thereafter they would begin celebrating..

In Monsoon, by Robert Kaplan, senior adviser to American foreign policy makers, in the chapter on SL, Prabhakaran was deliberately referred to as Roman Catholic not once but three times. That was a deliberate act of disinformation – he deliberately..

The efforts to bring down the curtain to the investigation on Sri Lanka will be to pin the argument of command responsibility thus enabling key heads already named to be indicted for war crimes, crimes against humanity and so forth…

(Courtesy of  Asiantribune.com) Maithripala Srisena, the newly emerged UNP presidential candidate (the so called Common Opposition Candidate) has disclosed that he would have discussions with the Tamil National Alliance and it is learnt that already TNA is in touch with..

H. L. D. Mahindapala The joint opposition was desperately looking for a common candidate to (1) end, if possible,its divisive, internecine conflicts and (2) present a formidable and acceptable candidate who could stand up to the incumbent, Mahinda Rajapaksa. On..